DUers, do you play Computer Games?

I've played games in virtually every genre since the 80's, and have had favorites/obsessions in each one. Above is a pic from my current obssession, World of Warcraft, which is also my first ever RPG of any kind. Thank you very much, my wife, for addicting me to WarCrack!

I love word games.

like the Diablo games (still play the original once in a while but have been playing Diablo II on & off for five years now). Also like the "Starcraft" and "Warcraft" games.

online on Battlenet.

They just patched it up to 1.12 or something this past week. SC/BW is my all time favorite game out of many favorites. I have had the most fun playing missions and online.

they're the best out there!

diablo 2 junky here, also warcraft when i find time (been a while) and age of empires (while not blizzard, it's pretty fun).

And I still like the original WC. I felt disappointed by WCIII.

I might take you up on the Starcraft game (love Brood Wars) but it will be after the NCAA tournament & the city elections in April. I am part of the Phog Phlock and basketball is my current addiction. Every year between "Late Night in the Phog" and the end of the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament I have no spare time. The reason I married my husband is because he is the only man who has ever understood (and not interfered/criticized) me about my passion for basketball (all teams, he usually just watches the Jayhawks) and computer games. Of course, I give him the same respect for his passion of his PS games and his Hitler/History channel obsessions. We share a love for politics.

it's a game more to my tastes, whereas sc and II are more grand strategy. i'm a commando-raid behind enemy lines using massive heroes kinda person. :D

but I eventually ran out of disk space, but now, with my 500 gigs...

hmmm :D

I had a "latest and greatest" rig during QII era but not the others.

Went by the following names

funtimes
(open du bracket)dirty (close du bracket)Starr
NI3
Lesbian Seagull
Ali'i{PBB}
tdi-Apache

cuz my rig is not the latest and the greatest ;)

I do love gaming, but I've never really had the setup. I generally stick to console games, but I do like computer gaming as well. I've never ventured much outside the puzzle games though, but I did get really into Sim City 2000 and Worms. Man, Worms is one of the greatest games ever.

PC Gamer, Computer Gaming World. I wonder what it is about those games, will have to check it out sometime.

But I think it's because they're amazingly fun.

They are very easy to play but they still can be challenging when you must adjust for environmental factors while playing.

Plus you get to use a ninja rope. And there's the exploding sheep and the holy hand grenade.

Man, I need to find my copy.

Computer games play people

If that counts, you can consider me addicted. :)

But then I got addicted and all my friends move to DAC, so my mom made me quite... UO was getting pretty bad when I left...

I do NASCAR Sim racing.

PAPYRUS/Sierra released a series of games from 2000 to 2004 called "NASCAR RACING" and they are incredibly realistic.

I guess EA Sports threw a bunch of money at NASCAR and PAPYRUS/Sierra stopped making the game after the 2003 NASCAR season.

I got the whole setup - steering wheel and shifter console /gas and brake pedals, surround sound and when the engines are roaring it's freaking awesome.

The DOLBY surround sound allows you to hear cars coming up on you from behind and when there is a crash it's mayhem.

I've been in a few leagues, and we do on-line racing, so I am racing against other idiots like me, and it's highly competitive.

When you get close to another car, you can feel the draft pulling you along, and you can see your speed increase.

I've done thousands and thousands of laps at a number of tracks and I ain't even close to being good.
Some of these guys spend countless hours tweaking their car setups and paint jobs.

Here's one of my many rides at Coca-Cola speedway during a practice run.



You can race at night too, at Daytona and Lowe's and Texas and even at Bristol which is unbelievably tough.

I read where a lot of rookie NASCAR drivers use the game to improve their reactions and even to become familiar with tracks they haven't raced on, like the road courses.

I may crank it up later on tonight since the NEXTEL boys are off Sunday!

Vroom! Vroom! Vrrrrroooooooooommmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!

Oh, and I also play World of Warcraft. Just started last week.
Now I'm hooked, and there simply is not enough time in the day to play WoW!

I suck but am game to play sometime...

Scrabble's my 1st love

I'll make an account at chessworld and play ya.

Diablo I and II
Heroes of Might and Magic (don't like #4)

It's by far the coolest RPG I've seen. Oh and teh Horde pwns Alliance!

and much, much higher for level 60 types.

I'm a level 35 Night Elf Rogue named Elijah. I used to be Jefflebowski but the Game Masters made me change it because it was a "real life" reference. Lame...

It's fun playing on one of the most lopsided Alliance favored realms. Just means more gnomes for me to gank. :D

You might feel that's lame but I think it's great. One of the reasons I stopped playing MMORPGs was they had very little do with actual RPGs. I've been hearing quite a lot of good things about WoW. I just may have to give it a try one of these days.

IMHO, "Eljiah" sounds a lot better than "Jefflebowski." ;)

something.

My wife who plays WoW did kill a player named KarlRove though, an undead mage. We decided he was probably more likely to be a liberal with an ironic player name than a wingnut, but still, with a name like that you gotta expect to get killed some.

She's killed him twice, actually.

or when I'm listening to airamericaradio I have some solitaire games I play.
:hi:

It's too bad my copy is at home while I'm here in SD :(

Far Cry is awesome. I have an AMD 64 and a good vc, and I still can't play it at top resolution. The Punisher is just a guilty pleasure, like Postal. We all know about GTA.

At university along with a couple of chums I found an obscure share-ware game called 'Space Empires' where you develop technologies, and colonise other planets, design space-ships &c. I love to feel the power flowing through my finger-tips.

Not bothered by good graphics &c., just need to kill lots of opponenets.

I suppose this means I should join the Republican Party......

Best of the space empire sims, IMHO.

until EA Games slaughtered it. I also loved "Pax Imperia:Imminent Domain".

also good, although the online play through Westwood was WAY buggy compared with Blizzard's Battlenet.

The rest of the C&C games I couldn't really tell you about. I guess Dune II, the progenitor of C&C, really gave birth to the RTS industry such as it is now. I don't know if Dune II or Warcraft I came out first.

I used to play it on Westwood's site a few years back. I miss the series, I heard "Generals" sucked pretty badly.

and yuri. cuz yuri's revenge was just awesome. amazingly harder, bc of all the mind-control crap, but fun.

i have a running argument with a buddy: he said that he could build nothing but conscripts and beat me. i always disagreed: tanyas and seals and snipers. that says it all. especially if they're in ifv's.

we never played out the scenario, so i don't know. it would have been epic.

...consols are for gamers.

We have a PS2 but I could never ever get into it. I like mouse/keybd controls so much better than console pads. For a game like GTA no comparison for me. Our PS2 is just a crappy too expensive poorly functional extra DVD player.

But, I like playing games in the living room at night in front of my big-screen with the surround sound cranked up...

My computer is a much better entertainment machine than the system I have in my living room. It's amazing the kind of stuff you can find to upgrade your machine nowadays.

It's time to graduate over to PC gaming -- it's a whole 'nother world. ;)

it can't run anything 3D. it's total crap.

i love my mac, but there's one thing it don't have: and that's a selection of games.

blizzard is great/awesome/wonderful, bc they make EVERYTHING mac compatible. and a few games made it to mac through the company macsoft (aoe2, unreal tournament, etc).

but i basically get stuck watching everyone else play fun pc games that i can't. it sucks.

made by the Swedish company Paradox. They're by far the most complex and most engrossing games I've ever played. They are:

* Europa-Universalis II (Pick any country in the world between 1419-1819 and go for colonisation, world conquest or whatever you want to do)
* Victoria: Empire under the Sun (similar, but set between 1835 and 1919)
* Hearts of Iron 2 (join the Axis, Allies or Comintern and change the outcome of WW2 for better or for worse in the years 1936 to 1948)

They have similar things in common, such as advanced world diplomacy (alliances and treaties), trade (merchants, trade embargos, trade agreements), Research and Development (army, navy, airforce, industrial, doctrines) construction (improving infrastructure, building forts and military units) and good old fashioned warfare.)

The screenshots are too big to post here. Here's a couple of examples. (these are from HOI2)

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/heartsofiron2/screens.html?page=79

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/heartsofiron2/screens.html?page=75

I thought I was the only one! I love that game. It's so realistic.

It's quite rare for me to find someone else who likes that game. I'm a history buff so it fits in nicely. Is there a nation and scenario you like to play most on it? :)

I tried to play it but it was a bit deep for me.

It might be right up your alley.

http://www.dreamcatchergames.com/dci/superpower2/

I didn't like it very much as I thought it wasn't very well implemented in it's design; but thanks for suggesting it though :)

You could play a major European power and make alliances as you chose. It looks really great.

:)

The games I've played most recently

Counter-Strike: Source
Half-Life 2
Doom 3
Rome: Total War
Hitman series
Diablo 2
Neverwinter Nights
Blockland (free game where you build with legos :))
Battlefield 1942

Good RPGs:
Knights of the Old Republic
Baldur's Gate 1 & 2
Icewind Dale 1 & 2
Neverwinter Nights
(pretty much anything Bioware puts out :))

Games I'm looking foward to:
Call of Cthulhu: Dark corners of the Earth
Doom 3 expansion
Neverwinter Nights 2

The one type of game I don't play:
Massive Multiplayer Online RPGs (like World of Warcraft, or Everquest). Soul-crushingly boring games that you have to keep paying for in order to play. Horrible horrible horrible. I guess I'm from the school of thought that if you are going to call something an RPG, it should at least have some kind of plot.

but give me an xbox...

Then I've got Mercenaries, NHL 2004, Madden 05, NCAA Football 05, Mafia, Morrowind, Tony Hawk...the list goes on

I grew up on the 8-bit Nintendo and 16-bit Sega Genesis but consoles can't hold my interest anymore. I think I first fell in love with the world of PC gaming after being introduced to LucasArts' adventure games (Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max, Monkey Island, etc.) -- it's led to all sorts of genres though I do miss those LucasArts golden years.

ATM, I'm playing the new expansion for The Sims 2. I'm always diving into Counter-Strike: Source, though I do miss Day of Defeat (always believed DOD was a better and more enjoyable HL mod than CS). I was completely blown away by Half-Life 2.

I finished Knights of the Old Republic 2 a couple weeks ago and was fairly dissapointed with it (plot-wise, character-wise, etc.) though I still enjoyed the time I spent playing it.

I tried the MMORPG scene for a while -- was a beta tester for Star Wars: Galaxies and had an account with them for over a year. MMORPGs became very boring for me -- they felt more like work than actual fun, though I have heard some very good things about World of Warcraft. I may dive into this genre later on.

Some of my all-time favorites include: Grim Fandango (probably my favorite out of LucasArts' adventure games), The Longest Journey (another adventure), Mafia, Half-Life 1 & 2 (and their mods), the Madden series, The Sims 1 & 2 (customization is the key to creating a lasting game), Knights of the Old Republic I (definitely not the sequel), and for good measure -- Sid Meier's Pirates.

It's mindboggling to see how far they've fallen in terms of quality since their golden years...

;)

expansions that I can find.


also play Yahoo Canasta and bridge from time to time.


I have also played some of the other Yahoo games and
have about 75 different kids of solitaire loaded on my PC

meeep.

:headbang:

"Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now":





"Race to the finish or destroy the zombie hoardes: The choice is yours"

(I work for a software company) - don't want to bring work home.

I've been addicted to the various versions over the years.

and other half-life mods

lol..but i'm starting to think i'm getting too old to put up with it, though

I might play for a couple of months each year during winter.

I like Zoo Tycoon, I also love Age of Mythology and I play Zeus. I sometimes play other games. I have to be in a mood to play, but when in the mood, I can go for hours.

:)

But I've enjoyed a few Adventure Games too.

The Longest Journey was a great one.

Great fun, been playing that since launch :)

so sorry.


:D